ramblings of an entrepreneurial madman

I’d be back later this week with some good news and I was right! I closed our first deal on Wednesday and it looks like I closed 2 more tonight. 1 of the 2 isn’t 100% but I feel pretty damn confident about it so we’ll see.

Tomorrow(Saturday) I have a long day of dialing and trying to catch some of the people I have been unable to reach the last few days. Aside from that, it’s just a standard weekend of working out and lying low. I cannot begin to express how excited I am that we are closing deals. I would like to have close to 20 deals on the books before the end of the year but I’m not sure how realistic of an expectation that is. Right now we are on pace to do about 5 before the end of November and that means we would need 15 in the month of December alone. That’s a piece a cake and 1 sales rep can do that many deals. I know this because I’ve done it in the past for my previous employer, however we are still trying to figure out our marketing and until we are able to do that the deals are going to trickle in very slowly.

What’s almost more important than the actual deals at this point is our marketing and getting that completely figured out over the next month so we can hit the ground running in 2012. It will be here before we know it.

On a not-so-bright note, I’m getting angry with both of my business partners and their lack of effort. I’m up until late in the evening entering leads into our system and also doing a ton of research on different marketing methods. On top of that I’m making all of my calls for my current employer as well as for my new company and thus far I’m the only one bringing in business. Not only that but I was up until midnight last night entering leads into our system so we’d have people to call today and my business partner did not call 1 fucking lead.

I’d be lying if I said this didn’t bother me because that’s fucking bullshit. If I’m staying up late to make sure we have work to do the next day and he doesn’t do it what the fuck is the point of having him as a partner? Even if he does call the leads he is still not doing as much work as me because I’m handling the marketing as well but the fact that he didn’t even call 1 lead was just a slap in the face.

I need to have a talk with him and it’s bullshit that I even need to bring this up. Both of my business partners are older and since I’m the young guy I think they are expecting me to do all of the work. If that’s the case, fine, but I’m going to get more than 1/3rd of the company if that’s whats going to go down.

Anyways, I’m going to try to not leave this on a low note and just reiterate how happy I am that we’ve begun closing deals. Hopefully we get our marketing in order and this thing takes off like wild-fire! Enjoy your weekends people, more to come later.